Corgi book The Long Utopia Pratchett Terry, Baxter Stephen

Много лет минуло с первого путешествия Лобсанга и Джошуа Валиенте по Долгой Земле. В колониях родились и выросли новые поколения людей, уже не представляющие свою жизнь в рамках привычной нам цивилизации • Джошуа Валиенте теперь отец семейства и мэр одинокого поселения за несколько тысяч переходов от Базовой Земли, но -- вынужден бросить все и вновь отправиться в путь. Расселяющиеся по множеству миров люди ошибочно решили, что человек – венец творения, а значит всякие тролли, кобольды и бигли – просто тупые животные. С чем последние категорически не согласны. Джошуа вместе с Лобсангом должны предотвратить назревающую войну, победителей в которой не будет… • «Бесконечная война», роман Терри Пратчетта и Стивена Бакстера, станет великолепным подарком для поклонников творчества автора

2070-е. Заселение Бесконечной Земли идет полным ходом, а Базовая ее часть почти опустела. Лобсанг вновь ушел в себя. Джошуа отшельничает в очень далеких Запад-Землях, переживая там в одиночестве смерть жены и плохие отношения со взрослым сыном • Благодаря Разрыву человечество готовится продвинуться в колонизации Солнечной системы еще дальше Марса. И тогда со стороны созвездия Стрельцы на все миры Бесконечной Земли поступает сообщение: «Присоединяйтесь к нам» • Люди начинают думать, что делать с таким предложением. Для совместного решения и его реализации всем человеческим видам придется объединиться и работать сообща. К чему же придут старые и новые герои? Чем обернется этот финальный для Бесконечного Человечества шаг в эпопее о Бесконечной Земле? Станет ли он переходом к еще большим возможностям или же последним для людей всевозможных Земель? • «Бесконечный Космос», роман Терри Пратчетта и Стивена Бакстера, станет великолепным подарком для поклонников творчества автора

At only thirteen, Mikey Quinn is arrested for stealing a rabbit to feed his family. Despite his age, he’s shown no mercy by the wealthy lawyer who sends him to prison. He returns home to find that his mother has died and his younger siblings taken into the workhouse • With only his determination, Mikey makes his way to London to seek a better life for his family. Whilst there, he meets Eleanor who he recognises as the daughter of the lawyer who ruined his life. Desperate, they band together forging a new life for themselves on the streets of London • Overlooking their initial differences, the two come to rely on each other and, when the time comes to return to Hull, they face the long walk home together

Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016 • From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain. This third volume tells of Alan’s early political skirmishes as a trades union leader, where his negotiating skills and charismatic style soon came to the notice of Tony Blair and other senior members of the Labour Party • As a result, Alan was chosen to stand in the constituency of Hull West and Hessle, and entered Parliament as an MP after the landslide election victory for Labour in May 1997. But this is no self-aggrandizing memoir of Westminster politicking and skulduggery

2040-е. Спустя годы после чудовищного извержения Йеллоустоуна экономика планеты переживает тяжёлые времена из-за массовой миграции в многочисленные миры Бесконечной Земли • Джошуа, Лобсанг и Салли участвуют в этом нелёгком процессе. С последней на связь выходит её давно пропавший отец, изобретатель первого Переходника Уиллис Линдси. Он сообщает ей, что планирует совершить невероятное путешествие к Бесконечному Марсу, и зовёт её с собой. Но тот ли он, за кого себя выдаёт? • Джошуа не нужно далеко ходить за неприятностями: на него сваливаются тягости, связанные с пробуждением Следующих, новой ступени человеческого развития. Их «бесконечное детство», проведённое в скрытом мире Бесконечной Земли, подходит к концу, но общество простых людей питает к ним явно недружелюбные предрассудки, поэтому, похоже, конфликта не миновать

The Yellow Jersey Club contains just twenty-six living members. To become one of this exclusive number requires complete dedication, brutal self-sacrifice and the most extraordinary physical attributes. Yet along with the ability to climb mountains, bomb along time trials and survive all the perils of the road, what really makes a Tour de France champion? • Edward Pickering set out on a mission to ask them, and gained some astonishing insights into the minds of cycling's best ever riders of the past forty years, from giants like Greg LeMond and Stephen Roche to more unfamiliar names like Bernard Thevenet and Joop Zootemelk. With his trademark sharp analysis and deft style, Pickering explores the myriad factors that combine to produce success • What does it take to accumulate such great mental strength, skill and endurance? What are the differences as well as the key factors in common? What sets these men apart from the rest of the field? The Yellow Jersey Club gives the reader unprecedented access into the secrets of the greats of cycling

The Plumberry School of Comfort Food was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package • Putting other people first doesn’t always mean you have to come second… • Verity has lost everything she loved; her best friend and baking companion has died, taking with her their shared passion for cooking. To top it off, it looks like her career and love life might soon follow suit • Although she’s very much in need of some time for herself, Verity instead leaps at the opportunity to help a friend find her feet and help establish a cooking school. Just as long as she doesn’t have to cook anything! Even so, it’s all far from easy, even with the comfort of new friendship and a taste of fresh romance • So when tragedy strikes at the very heart of the cookery school Verity once again risks losing everything

The weird and wonderful true story of a national treasure in the making • Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole, run the Sahara and ice-skated across Sweden. He has encountered isolated tribes in deepest Papua New Guinea, caused a Boeing 747 to dump ?100k of fuel before making an emergency landing in Sao Paolo, and frequently been mistaken for Prince William along the way • So how did a cripplingly shy, geeky, perennially homesick boy end up doing all this? Ben's still not entirely sure himself, but this wonderful book tells his story and will strike a chord with anyone puzzling about life, and how to live it differently • This is a book about defying expectations, conquering fears, battling laziness and, just occasionally, winning

The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed unable to speak. When she asked to see the firm's senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at first shown the door - but when Mr Armstrong learned the name of his visitor, all the office staff were amazed at his reaction. For Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence from obscurity was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years • What Irene - the silent lady of the title - had been doing, and where she had been, gradually emerged over the following weeks as Armstrong met the unlikely benefactors who had befriended her and helped her to build a useful and satisfying life in a sheltered environment

The inspiring story of one young man's record-breaking solo cycle journey around the world • On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had begun his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than 18,000 miles on his own through some of the harshest conditions one man and his bicycle can endure, camping wild at night and suffering from constant ailments • The Man Who Cycled the World is the story not just of that amazing achievement, but of the events that turned Mark Beaumont into the man he is today. From the early years of his free-spirited childhood in the Scottish countryside to present day, he has been equally determined not to settle for an average existence, but to break free and follow his dreams

The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world • Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to 'the one device', as he called it, a mobile phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go • How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertino - based on his exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone's creation • This deep dive takes you from inside 1 Infinite Loop to nineteenth-century France to WWII America, from the driest place on earth to a Kenyan pit of toxic e-waste, and even deep inside Shenzhen's notorious 'suicide factories'

The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real home. Little did he know that he had entered the Longden world, in which the unexpected (almost) always happens • Aileen being Aileen, it was probably inevitable that sooner or later the kitten would be trapped in the refrigerator. And Deric being Deric, the obvious way to thaw him back to life was to make a little coat for him out of a shrunken thermal vest. Thus the cat who came in from the cold got his name - Thermal - and joined the wonderful cast of characters in the ongoing Longden saga